Wartime canings at school
Posted by Abel on 13 Feb 2008 at 08:52 am | Tagged as: Perverting Reality
A researcher’s trawl through wartime “Log Books and, where they still exist, the Admissions Registers and Punishment Books” of schools in South Wales turns up a couple of interesting records that deserve a wider audience. Take 16th May 1939:
During the afternoon Mr. Lines, an Eleanor Street teacher, canes ‘two girls…for continued disobedience’.
Some five years later, on 13th October 1944:
An Ely Mixed girl who stole a teacher’s watch receives ‘two strokes of the cane on each hand in front of the whole school’.
One suspects that, in the latter case, the ‘in front of the whole school’ may have been designed to be a more serious feature of the punishment than the ‘two strokes of the cane on each hand’.
Then again, hand-canings can prove most effective. Haron? I feel like administering a little historical re-enactment. In the interests of research, you’ll understand. Dear readers, you will understand if she doesn’t feel like typing any comments for the rest of the day.
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Abel: Hand canings can prove most effective for WHAT may I ask?
Surely a hand caning is harder to disguse which could lead to some really awkard questions?
I’ve never been caned on my hands before (actually, I’ve never really been caned anywhere, but I’ve heard enough accounts of it to feel I know what I’m talking about just a little bit) but I’ve always wondered if it would be worse than being caned on your behind. Your hands get injured more easily though, don’t they? Maybe Haron could enlighten me after she has recovered from such a brutal attack…
Hands do get injured more easily, which is why you don’t cane them as hard. Conveniently, it wouldn’t be safe to use the cane hard enough to leave a mark, so there’s no problem with disguising subsequent damage. (You can make your disciplinary point without making any damage.)
I far prefer tawses on hands, though.
..can I take my rings off first…asks she, still not at all convinced she wants this experience….but what a useful threat, says he.
Hi Haron. Remember me - “The Guv’nor” from SSS and ASRM:) I actually went to school in Cardiff:)
The cane on the hands was for some of us pretty standard in school. Bizarrely the cane or ruler on the outstretched palm was the usual punishment for children in Irish primary schools during my time (seventies). And then there were horrific rumours of something called the strap that would be applied without mercy once we reached secondary school. I certainly got my fair share of those straps between the ages of 12 and 16, and guess what!? Perhaps it was just ordinary growing up, but that strap was never so horrifying as the cane. Of course punishment on the buttocks is more civilised. But all the same; there is something rather exquisite about the exercise of canee/strappee having to look caner/strapper straight in the eyes as the instrument is raised.
My husband attended a school run by Christian Brothers in the seventies and their preferred method of punishment was to use a strap with a penny (I think pre decimal size) taped to the end. Ouch!
Apparently there was a termly competition (amongst the boys, not the Brothers) to see who could achieve the most beatings!
I have been through a number of school punishment books in Suffolk there are a number of incidents of girls
However on 30th June 1939 a girl at a school on the suffolk coast whose name I have was given several strokes of the cane for general nautiness and annoying behaviour on her btm.
At the same school in May 1954 another girl was given a good spanking for disobedience.